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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: still relly today ;0D
LETTER FROM A BIRMINGHAM JAIL, CIRCA 1963 …I am cognizant of the inter-relatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single…
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C.S. LEWIS, MY LOVE: Christianity and fake “news” in American politics ;0D
THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS/Chapter 14, Circa 1942 My dear Wormwood, The most alarming thing in your last account of the patient is that he is making none of those confident resolutions which marked his original conversion. No more lavish promises of perpetual virtue, I gather; not even the expectation of an endowment of ‘grace’ for life,…
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, MY LOVE: That thou her Maid art far more fair than she.
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. WHAT IS NOBLE/Aphorism No. 263 CIRCA 1886 There is an instinct for rank which, more than anything else, is a sign of a high rank; there is a delight in the nuances of reverence that allows us to infer noble origin and habits. The…